Laura Benavidez

Jorge Alberto Vega Rivera

Colombia

Graphic and audiovisual designer motivated by storytelling from visual or audiovisual supports, such as illustration, animation and cinema. Professor at the University of Cauca, Department of Design. Director of the Narrative Image and Transmedia Laboratory research group. Co-founder of La Valiente Estudio. Director of the Pájarocubo animated short film.

Alejandro Preciado

Colombia

Apprentice of the Technologist program in Multimedia Production of SENA-CEET. Electricity, Electronics and Telecommunications Center, with knowledge and skills in sketching, illustration and 2D animation, development of educational and business content, has participated in the development of posters and transmedia content for the SENA-CEET research hotbed La Caja MakerLab Multimedia .

Luciana Pinoti

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Argentina

Graduated in Social Communication at the University of Buenos Aires and master's degree (thesis student) in Criticism and Diffusion of the Arts at UNA. He is part of the animation research group Animated Poetics of the UNA. She is also a teacher at UNA (distance tutor specialization), UBA (Socioanthropology) and UNGS (Theory of Culture I). Currently, he is working on his Master's thesis on the subject of Animated Travel Diaries.

Oscar Rojas Ramirez

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Colombia/Argentina

PhD Candidate in Design and Creation and Master in Design and Interactive Creation from the University of Caldas-Colombia, specialist in Media Arts from the University of Córdoba-Argentina, specialist in Education from the Autonomous University of Colombia, Publicist and Graphic Designer, with emphasis on digital processes and animation.

Cristina Andrea Siragusa

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Argentina

PhD in Semiotics from the National University of Córdoba. Researcher and Professor at the National University of Villa María (UNVM) and the National University of Córdoba (UNC), she has specialized in the study of audiovisual production (film works, television series) of live action and animation developed in the various national territories of Argentina in recent years. She is a compiler of the books, along with Alejandro González, from La televisión animada. A stylistic explosion on Argentine screens (UNVM, 2017) and Poéticas de la Animación Argentina 1960-2010. Córdoba, Rosario and Buenos Aires (Editorial La Barbarie, 2013).

Maria Constanza Curatitoli

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Argentina

Degree in Film and TV; PhD candidate in Arts (FA – UNC); SECyT Scholarship – UNC. Member of the research team Travesías por la audiovisualidad de Córdoba: Space and spaces (2010-2020)- SECyT-UNC. Attached to the Experimental Animation Center - CEAN and the Chair "Art and Modernity" (Cinema and TV Dept. - FA - UNC). Producer of the Córdoba International Animation Festival ANIMA and the Córdoba International Animation Academic Forum – FAIA.

Alexander R. Gonzalez

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Argentina

Alejandro R. González is an animation activist in Argentina. He is an animator, animation professor (UNC, UNVM) and animation researcher. Artistic Director of the International Animation Festival of Córdoba – ANIMA; Coordinator of the Experimental Animation Center (CEAn) of the UNC. His works (audiovisual and theoretical) have participated in festivals, exhibitions and congresses around the world. His theoretical production focuses on the historical and poetic aspects of Argentine and Latin American animation.

Reinel Uriel Rojas

Colombia

Apprentice of the Technologist program in Multimedia Production of the SENA-CEET Center of Electricity, Electronics and Telecommunications, with knowledge and skills in advertising, he has a strong background especially in drawing and illustrations, development of educational and business content, he has participated in the development of posters and transmedia content for the SENA-CEET research hotbed La Caja MakerLab Multimedia.